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I won! It took some 40-odd days, but I won! I kept him locked down with a load of ranged units fronted and protected by some Neotanks, and then, after another Tag Team CO Power, stormed in for the kill and sat units on top of his factories. Suddenly, he only had a couple of light tanks and some infantry, although he could still build aerial units (and so built a bomber). It didn’t do any major damage, and was …

Dipped out of Campaign Mode again, to tackle one of the War Room maps. By Day 15 things were already not looking good. At all. I had hardly any units, the enemy had me pinned down, and some of my cities had started to fall. I can’t create any aerial units as they get shot down immediately, and the missile silos I reached didn’t help a great deal. By Day 25 things were even worse, but then my Tag Team …

Took a short break from the main story mode to have a go at one of the War Room maps – Spann. It was after about 15 moves that I realised I’d played that map before – in the original Advance Wars. Took a good 30-odd days to win though, even though I started off with the advantage. C-rank == RUBBISH.

A few more (lengthy but pretty easy) missions, including one against Green Earth and a Megatank (which took some 6 rockets to destroy) and another with some Black Bombs that were under my control. Stupidly, I destroyed two trying to figure out what to do with them, and then the others ran out of fuel. I did get one to detonate near some baddies anyway.

Missions 10-13. One of them, 11, against Yellow Comet was a bit tricky, until I found the obvious weakness and stormed it. It didn’t seem to matter that I was hopelessly underpowered in the end. There was a Fog of War one too, which I almost lost due to not realising that under the fog, there might be ranged weapons. There were, and they wiped out my infantry. With no factories, I couldn’t create more, and, even though there were …

Mission 9, and it’s the first one with a “war on two fronts”. As such, it was a bit confusing to start with, but in fact the second front (on the second screen) kind of takes care of itself for the most part. I just had to send up reinforcements every so often. This mission took ages, but was pretty simple. I think I overdid it buying millions of missile launchers, when Neotanks were much more useful. Destroyed the “Black …

A few more missions, and my first DS game crash! Part way through the first Fog of War mission, I attacked an enemy tank, and the bottom screen went black and the game crashed. The music was still playing in the background though. Had to power off and try again. Also had a play on Combat Mode. It’s great – kind of like a cross between Atari’s Combat for the 2600, and Gauntlet. You have one unit at a time …